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Publication Restricted Concept Car Exhibitions as Museums of the Future: Representational Spaces in the Context of Space Age Aesthetics(2025) Kaynakci, Sivan; Köknar, Sait Ali; Dreyer, Miriam; Interior Architecture/Interior Design (BA); Berlin International University of Applied SciencesABSTRACT This thesis explores the architectural potential of Space Age aesthetics with the concept of car museum. Originating in 1950s, Space Age aesthetics were born from the cultural and technological atmosphere of the space race, expressing futuristic ideals through synthetic materials, fluid forms, and symbolic abstractions. In spite of its profound influence on design disciplines, the integration of this aesthetic into exhibition architecture, notably within automotive display environments, has remained limited. Positioned at the intersection of speculative design and spatial narrative, this study examines how concept cars, as object of technological imagination might be exhibited in environments, reflect their visionary essence. Rather than relying on conventional case studies the research draws form selected examples to uncover visual strategies, material tendencies, and spatial narratives aligned with Space Age design. The Project sites in BerlinOberschöneweied establishes a historical link with AEG’s early automotive innovations, creating a meaningful continuity between the past and imagined futures. Adopting a research, through a design methodology, theoretical analysis is translated into a spatial proposition that centers on spatial atmosphere, spatial intensity, and thematic coherence. In conclusion, the thesis exclaims a design framework wherein structure and content are integrated conceptually and formally. The museum is re-imagined not only as an exhibition venue but as a performative environment that reactivates Space Age aesthetics for contemporary audiences as well.Item Restricted Daylight-zones : perceiving and defining spatial interrelations(2020) Dreyer, Miriam; Martín, Javier; Starck, Adrian von; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"The Danish architect and lighting designer Prof. Merete Madsen, Ph.D., depicts how daylight as an omnipresent element is often taken for granted and therefore not sufficiently explored in terms of its space-defining attributes in architecture. She specifies daylighting as a composition of different 'light zones' and 'shadow zones' and further distinguishes natural light zones into 'reflected sunlight- zones' and 'daylight-zones' (Madsen 2004, 53). The latter can be determined with architectural openings, cavities, or any kinds of structures that enable the permeability of direct daylight incidence (see figure 1). On the contrary, adjacent shadow zones occur due to the interference of daylight by physical structures that frame these openings. As a consequence, they 'can be regarded as a space within a space' (Wänström Lindh 2012, 61). Expanding on Madsen's thoughts, this bachelor thesis examines how and to what extent daylightzones can act as spatial creators. It is analyzed how individuals connect with daylight-zones by perceiving them, and thereby build a subjective understanding of architectural space. At that, the recipient's conception of space is formed independently from physical borders. Therefore, the thesis investigates spatial conceptions that do not build upon haptic boundaries but rather on the interconnection of a physical space with both observer and its natural light environment. In doing so, it proposes a shift of priorities in the consideration of architectural space: from separative to connecting, from objective to subjective, from immobile to ever-changing. [...] this thesis acts as an invitation to question one's understanding of spatiality in architecture and strengthen an acknowledgment for the interplay of nature, architecture, and one's mind when experiencing space. The goal is to raise awareness for relations and interactions initiated by daylight, which lead to an engaging conception of space. At that, the research is meant to contribute to the scientific knowledge about the space-defining characteristics of daylight and thus, expand the methods available to implement daylight-zones in the architectural field. Moreover, the collected findings will serve as a design tool to work more consciously with existing as well as newly implemented light zones. Therefore, the thesis does not only foreground the importance of light incidence in architecture but also strives to raise awareness to a subjective perception of daylight-zones. The investigation first examines how architectural space can be visually perceived. Second, it focuses on how the process of visual perception implies different spatial connections and interactions and, third, it explains how they can be created by daylight-zones. These interrelations will be defined and analyzed in order to draw conclusions on how daylight-zones influence one's conception of space."